Scientific classification

Class: Aves

Order: Piciformes

Family: Picidae

Subfamily: Picinae

Tribe: Melanerpini

Genus:Veniliornis Bonaparte, 1854

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Restricted to the New World tropics. Probably closest to Dendrocopos; molecular phylogenetic study#R indicated that present genus and Picoides are reciprocally paraphyletic, and that, contrary to some earlier beliefs, present genus is not closely related to Piculus.